Home Management Advice
Partner Parenting
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- Parent Category: Parenting Advice
- Category: Sleeping, General Parenting Advice, Home Management Advice, Family Time Management
Studies show that women still do more household chores than their partner, including childcare and maintenance. Some call it the invisible workload; others refer to it as the household gender gap or the second shift. Interesting data can be found elsewhere (like this 2016 Huffington Post article) and PSP members have plenty of anecdotal evidence. PSP members also have useful tips and advice about how they distributed childcare tasks. This article divulges their most intimate words of wisdom about sharing the workload with your parent - with a focus on feeding, sleeping, and taking care of the little one in the middle of the night.
Tips for Subletting and Home Exchanges
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- Parent Category: The Hood
- Category: Hood Pages, Home Management Advice
With a few simple steps, rules and preparation, home exchanges and subletting can be a really positive experience. As a renter, housing exchanges can offer you the comforts of being in a home and provide your family with plenty of space and amenities. And as a host, you can even make some money from renting out your home to visitors.
Pain in the butt! How to deal with a neighbor who smokes
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- Parent Category: The Hood
- Category: Managing Urban Life, Home Management Advice
Over the years, PSP members have asked the group about smelling cigarette and cigar smoke from their neighbors.
So you have Bed Bugs
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- Parent Category: The Hood
- Category: Managing Urban Life, New York Life, Home Management Advice
From a PSP-er who has been there, done that and had to throw away the T shirt (or at least tumble dried it for 30+ minutes)
More Bed Bug Woes
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- Parent Category: The Hood
- Category: Managing Urban Life, Home Management Advice
More bed bugs questions answered...
(bed bugs have six legs and are very flat - almost paper thin that helps make them expert hiders)
How to Stay Organized and Get Focused
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- Category: Working Parents, Working Mother Topics, Home Management Advice
Parents share how they get organized at work (and also at home) and talk tips, strategies and more about how to stay focused on the job.
How do we teach kids about Money?
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- Parent Category: Parents of Tweens
- Category: Raising Tweens Tips, Home Management Advice, Tween Advice from Parents, Financial Advice
"Show me the money!"
Errr - does that sound more like your Tweenager than Tom Cruise in the movie Jerry Maguire? For us moms and dads, sometimes we want it to be more like show me the value and appreciation of money.
Hiring a photographer? Read these important safety and contract tips
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- Parent Category: Home Life
- Category: Home Management Advice, Financial Advice
Know what you're getting when you hire a photographer. Some photographers don't include the price of your digital image in their session rate? Some people will give you all the digital negatives, others only a few. Here are some things to think about as you hire a photographer.
When your utility company ghosts you
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- Parent Category: Home Life
- Category: Home Management Advice
Do you have no power - literally and figuratively? PSP members talk about the power struggle when your utlities company won't follow up with your requests.
What you Need to Know About Hiring and Paying House Cleaners
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- Parent Category: Home Life
- Category: Home Management Advice
Here are some tips about hiring and paying a housecleaner.
Splitting the Chores
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- Parent Category: Home Life
- Category: Home Management Advice, Working Parents
"Does anyone have a tip on how to divvy up household chores and duties?" was a simple question that resulted in a truely PSP-style way: a lively and engaging discussion about egalitarian households, gender dynamics, work/life balance, and more.
Bills, bills, bills: Members understand ConEd and Electrical Bills
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- Parent Category: Home Life
- Category: Home Management Advice, Financial Advice
This article is a summary of PSP member deliberation and discussion about ConEd, raises alternatives like Green Mountain and the 2014 increase in electrical costs.
Bills, bills, bills: Alternatives to Cable (or at least lowering cable bills)
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- Parent Category: Home Life
- Category: Home Management Advice, Financial Advice
When Benjamin Franklin said nothing is certain but death and taxes - he had no idea about the problems and headaches of cable and internet bills. This article is a summary of PSP member deliberation and discussion about Time Warner Cable (TWC), Leaf, Netflix, Apple TV, FiOS, and more…
How to be a GREAT neighbor when Sleep Training
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- Parent Category: Home Life
- Category: Home Management Advice, Managing Urban Life
Sleep training your child can be an anxious experience in itself. This anxiety is emphasized in New York, where many parents get nervous about upsetting their neighbors with their crying baby in the early hours of the morning. What can you do to keep the peace with your neighbors?
Balancing Babies and Budgets
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- Parent Category: Home Life
- Category: Home Management Advice, Financial Advice
It’s time to face the financial facts. Stop avoiding and start planning. PSP moms and dads share the realities of figuring out finances.
Being the Noisy Neighbor
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- Parent Category: Home Life
- Category: Home Management Advice, New York Life, Managing Urban Life
So your neighbors said you are too loud. What should you do when you’re the one making the noise?
Taking Care of Your Tree Pits
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- Parent Category: Home Life
- Category: Home Management Advice, Managing Urban Life
Tips for taking care of your tree pits.
Tips to Avoid Bed Bugs
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- Parent Category: Home Life
- Category: Home Management Advice, Managing Urban Life
Bed bugs have infested hotels, movie theaters, public transportation, schools, dorms, etc., etc. They also are showing up in the apparel in retail stores, likely brought in from overseas in the original shipment. The bugs are hitchhikers and frequently lay eggs on, or find their way into, clothing, luggage and furniture. Note: to protect yourself entirely from bed bug exposure is practically impossible, but there are many efforts that can significantly reduce your chances of bringing them into your home.
So You Want to Recycle?
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- Parent Category: Home Life
- Category: Home Management Advice
Where you can recycle batteries, electronics, plastics, running shoes, cell phones, ink cartridges and more in Park Slope.
Moth Problem
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- Parent Category: Home Life
- Category: Home Management Advice
"A few months ago we bought some rice in bulk and ended up with moths too. Even after throwing out the bag, and combing through the rest of our food to make sure there weren't any more infestations, we still have moths flying around our kitchen. Does anyone have ideas for a surefire (and not too toxic) way to get rid of them?"
Steam Pipe Radiator Covers and Keeping Kids Safe from Radiators
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- Category: Safety, Home Management Advice
Radiator covers are your responsibility as a parent (not the landlord's). How do you make sure kids don't touch the radiators or pipes? You can either purchase covers (price ranges from $150 - $500) or fabric pads (e.g., Rad Pads, $50-$100), have covers especially made (see PSP recommendations of people who can make them for you), or some of the less costly alternatives given by PSP members::
Home Safety with Home Help
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- Parent Category: Safety
- Category: Safety in the Home, Home Management Advice
Information about safegaurding your house when hiring housekeepers/nannies/caregivers and other hired help around the home.
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